“There’s this thing called Jewish propaganda, where they say that a German leader killed six million Jews … But he actually should have done it, because they are evil.”
Those haunting words, spoken by his uncle when Luai Ahmed was a teen, marked his first introduction to the Holocaust.
Growing up in Yemen, Ahmed recalls how the word “Jew,” or Yehudi in Arabic, was used as a curse. “If I want to insult you, I tell you that you’re a Jew,” he said.
Ahmed recently joined a trip to Poland and Germany, organized by the Israel-based nonprofit Sharaka—meaning “partnership” in Arabic.
Founded in the wake of the historic Abraham Accords—the 2020 peace agreements signifying a new era of cooperation between Israel and several Arab neighbors—Sharaka’s aim is to transform the Middle East from the ground up, promoting what it calls “people to people diplomacy.”
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Published originally on July 22, 2025.
